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White-Tailed Deer:
Their Foods & Management in the Cross Timbers
Table of Contents & Preface
Introduction
Habitat requirements
General concepts
Food requirements
Methods
used to gather data
Overall
use of forage classes
Seasonal
use of forages
Specific
seasonal deer diets
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Summary
Cover requirements
Water requirements
Space requirements
Habitat management
General concepts
Food management
Cover management
Water management
Space management
Population health/evaluation
Introduction & aging deer
Body size & antler characteristics
Fat deposits
Reproductive success
Population management
Introduction
Population inventory
Harvest
records
Deer
surveys
Population regulation
Potential
mng't goals
Appendix A:
Plants of the NFWU
Appendix B:
Deer diets on the NFWU
Appendix C:
Pictures and descriptions of
important deer food plants in the
Cross Timbers region
Glossary for Appendix C
Common names: poison ivy, common poison ivy
Scientific names: Toxicodendron radicans (Rhus radicans, R. verrucosa, T. eximium, T. negundo)
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Seasons of significant use: spring, summer, fall, winter (for Rhus spp.- T. radicans complex)
Characteristics: Native, perennial shrub or high-climbing woody vine. Vines with aerial rootlets. Leaves deciduous, alternate, trifoliolate compound; leaflets 3, variously margined, but usually lobed or denate, lateral leaflets often inequilateral (suggesting an outstretched hand with thumbs pointed out); plant is polygamous; inflorescences in lateral or axillary panicles; flowers small, greenish-white; fruit is a 1-seeded drupe, subglobose, white to yellow to tan colored at maturity, matures August-September. Flowers April-May.
Plant community type: Found in uplands and bottomlands, in wooded and open areas. Often found in fencerows and at the edge of wooded areas.
More Plant Photos and Descriptions:
Appendix C: Plants by Common Name
Appendix C: Plants by Scientific Name
Appendix C: Plants Listed by Family